Week 49 - Tunisia F10 ($10,000) - Sousse (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 49 - Tunisia F10 ($10,000) - Sousse (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see from Josh and Andy and encouraging for the future.

It's been a really good year in general for our currently top ranked players with James, Kyle and Liam to the fore and some good stuff at various times from our top mid 20 players.

However, depth is a concern, tied in with the ( general lack of big ) progression of younger players.

Kyle and Liam do of course excite, but they absolutely stand out, being the only GB men under 24 in the top 500. That's very poor and the current juniors do not look a great generation. None of these still eligible as juniors next year is either currently that close to the top 100 juniors ( will obviously move up a fair bit when the 1996s move on ) or has a senior ranking.

Anyway, sorry to turn negative on this particular thread where the news is positive.

Let there be more positive news from our younger players in 2015 and all the best to JWH.

paulisi · Tennis legend

JWH underway 2-2 opening set.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Josh lost the first set 6-2 and is a break down in the second.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not looking good: JWH didn't win another game in that set, losing it by 2-6. cry *1-3 in the second... hmm

steven · Tennis legend

SF: Josh Ward Hibbert WR 755 lost to (4) Omar Giacolone (ITA) WR 506 (= CH) by 2 & 4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not to be for Andy & Evan, either, sadly:

Final: Alessandro Bega & Francesco Vilardo (ITA) CR 2676 (1301+1375) defeated Andy Bettles & Evan Hoyt CR 2232 (1320+912) by 7-6(2) 6-3 bleh

The whole was obviously better than the sum of its parts for the Italian pair. cry